Ron Ben-Yishai

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Ron Ben-Yishai

Ron Ben-Yishai ( Hebrew רון בן-ישי), (Born October 26, 1943 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli journalist and winner of the Israel Prize .

Life

He is considered the most important Israeli war journalist for forty years of reporting, from the Six Day War and all other Israeli wars to the present day, and for his reports from Baghdad .

He was wounded three times while reporting. He was awarded the Chief of Staff's Medal of Honor (the highest honor for bravery an Israeli soldier can receive) for getting caught in an Egyptian bombardment while reporting for television in the Yom Kippur War , saving many wounded soldiers.

During the 1982 Lebanon War , he was the first Israeli journalist to cover the Sabra and Shatila massacres . After learning of the massacre, Ben-Yishai immediately woke up Defense Minister Ariel Sharon , who was sleeping in his apartment, and informed him so that he could intervene, but he did not respond.

In the 1990s he ran the daily Davar as editor-in-chief until it was closed .

In 2004 he became the spokesman for Israeli President Moshe Katsav . In 2005 he resigned.

In 2018 he was awarded the Israel Prize in the Culture, Art, Communication and Sports category.

In 2008 he starred in the Oscar-nominated film Waltz with Bashir , which is about the Lebanon war.

Ron Ben-Yishai lives in Tel-Aviv.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'Sharon was no warmonger, he just put Israel first' . In: ynetnews of January 12, 2014, accessed on September 11, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ Panorama: “The Accused”. Transcript of a BBC television documentary dated June 17, 2001, BBC website, accessed September 11, 2018
  3. ^ A b Military Correspondent Ron Ben-Yishai Wins Israel Prize. In: Haaretz from March 2, 2018, accessed on September 11, 2018 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ben-Yishai, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem